Johann Georg Hamann Quotes

A train of thought is never false. The falsehood lies deep in the necessities of existence.

That which is cannot be true.

There are many levels of truth.

I think Pirandello had something to say to people about what truth really is.

There are only two things. Truth and lies. Truth is indivisible, hence it cannot recognize itself; anyone who wants to recognize it has to be a lie.

There is no truth. There is only perception.

Let me tell you the truth. The truth is what is, and what should be is a fantasy. A terrible, terrible lie that someone gave to the people long ago.

There is nothing "ordinary" about reality.

Do you love me? Means at last do you see the same truth I see? If you do, we are happy together; but when presently one of us passes into the perception of a new truth, we are divorced and the force of all nature cannot hold us to each other.

The greatest mystery of all is reality.

Truth is that which affirms propositionally the nature of reality as it is.

Beyond positive and negative, what is Reality?

Don't lies eventually lead to the truth? And don't all my stories, true or false, tend toward the same conclusion? Don't they all have the same meaning? So what does it matter whether they are true or false if, in both cases, they are significant of what I have been and what I am? Sometimes it is easier to see clearly into the liar than into the man who tells the truth. Truth, like light, blinds. Falsehood, on the contrary, is a beautiful twilight that enhances every object.

A lie was something that hadn't happened but might just as well have.

My friend, the truth is always implausible, did you know that? To make the truth more plausible, it's absolutely necessary to mix a bit of falsehood with it. People have always done so.

Since I wasn't able to leave a succession of beautiful lies, I want to leave the smidgen of truth that the falsehood of everything lets us suppose we can tell.

Truth is in all things, even partly, in error.

Truth is what is true, and it's not necessarily factual. Truth and fact are not the same thing. Truth does not contradict or deny facts, but it goes through and beyond facts. This is something that it is very difficult for some people to understand. Truth can be dangerous.

Science deals exclusively with things as they are in themselves.

Nothing in this world is real

A thing may happen and be a total lie; another thing may not happen and be truer than the truth.

There is a mask of theory over the whole face of nature.

Truth is a theory that is constantly being disproved. Only lies, it seems, go on forever.

Nothing may truly be said to be a miracle except in the profound sense that everything is a miracle.

Truth would quickly cease to be stranger than fiction, once we got as used to it.